Plain Risk
Plain Risk is an approach to understanding, describing, and managing risk.
It helps people describe what could happen, the harm or loss it could cause, and what they can do about it.
For anyone interested in understanding risks and the decisions made about them.
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The framework
The approach
Purpose, method, and applications of Plain Risk.
Concepts
Definitions and sentence patterns for describing and examining risk.
Connections
How causes, consequences, exposure, harm, and responses to risk relate.
The structure of risk
Plain Risk’s core model
Connecting with practice
How Plain Risk connects with professional approaches and terms.
Apply
Describe a risk
Connect possible harm or loss to the events, conditions, or changes that could lead to it and what could follow.
Assess a control
Assess a control’s design and effectiveness in relation to its effects, objective, and the possible harm or loss it is intended to prevent or limit.
Explain risk appetite
Relate an activity to possible harm or loss and state the willingness to face that possibility in particular circumstances.
Risk governance
Set out the responsibility, authority, accountability, and duty attached to a role or body.